Lattice Carved Window Panel h50 with the right hand columns

with the right hand columns denoting decimals

When digging an air raid shelter due to fear of an imminent war with the Soviet Union

strength and good fortune

These lovely old baskets each have a wooden handle with supporting ironware to fix them in place

Lattice Carved Window Panel h50 with the right hand columnsGansu, circa 1900 This unusual wall panel is made up of eight rows of eight flowers, each indivdually carved and set within a thick outer frame. The panel is from Gansu province in western China, where it would originally have been fitted as one of several internal window panels. Today it would make a unique wall decoration, with the geometric pattern throwing unusual shadows on a wall when lit.